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stones, mounds, jewelry, weaponsIf I can give you the hint to start with the Stone AgeStone Age, then you might immediately think of perhaps the most famous monument in the UK: the odd-looking collection of huge stones arranged in somewhat circular fashionfashion in the southern part of EnglandEngland. But StonehengeStonehenge isn’t the only or even the largest monument built at least partly by people from the Stone Age. Not too far from Stonehenge is another less well-known but even larger monument: the stone circle at AveburyAvebury. And there are hundreds more scattered all over the British IslesBritish Isles. In addition to stone circles, mounds of earth are also testimony to the inhabitants of ancient Britain. BeakersBeakers, drinkingdrinking vessels made out of pottery, point to the fact that a prehistoric people found throughout much of Western and Southern Europe had also found their way to Britain. And finally beautiful gold jewelry and coins as well as weapons made of iron or bronze are silent testimony to the CeltsCelts as inhabitants of Britain. You can still find not silent but very much spoken testimony to the Celts in ScotlandScotland, WalesWales, and CornwallCornwall as well as in IrelandIreland as you learned from our last geography appetizer ( 1).